... on the slave ship. In one of his lines he states that, ". . .one of them held me fast by the hands, and laid me across, I think, the winlass, and tied my feet, while the other flogged me severely." (pg. 216) He also tells of when three men jumped overboard to try and drown themselves, how the crew of the ship went after them: ". . .and there was such a noise and confusion amongst the people of the ship as I never heard before, to stop her, and get the boat out to go after the slaves. However, two of the wretches were drowned, but they got the other, and afterwards flogged him unmercifully for thus attempting to prefer death to slavery." (pg. 218) He later goes on ...

... not have satisfied either the czar or his opponents, however. Radical revolutionaries continued to fight for a democratic republic, and the czar wanted to retain his control of the peasants. The next two revolutions were successful. They occurred during World War I, when Russian military forces were hard pressed by the Germans. The March Revolution of 1917 led to the abdication of Nicholas and the installation of a provisional government. The leader of this government was Alexander Kerensky, who was eventually forced from power. (He later immigrated to the United States.) The last revolution took place in November of the same year. (Because the date was in Octobe ...

... were thought of as nothing more than an early day sweat shop. By this, I mean that the colonists were basically used to work the land to provide crops which were normally imported from other countries to England. Since they were considered Englishmen and their lands considered property of the crown, the British could pass laws taking from them their basic rights as men. The British thought of the colonists as their primary asset in their practice of mercantilism, which at times may have been profitable for the colonists. Ultimately it became a primary reason for the beginning of social unrest among the early Americans. The colonists were like children who wer ...

... located on decks B and C of the shop were designed with different motiefs. The upperclass passengers had about eight different styles to choose from, so they could better enjoy the voyage (Titanic, p.2). Some of the suites had fire places that burned coal in the sitting room and gigantic beds in the bedroom. the most expensive suite had five rooms and a private bathroom, this truly was a luxury liner. Most upper class people had dinner at a huge restaurant on deck D (Titanic, p.2). It was 92 ft. wide and 114 ft. long. (Titanic, p.2) . The restaurant sat about 500 people (Titanic, p.2). There were a few other places to have dinner on the boat, even a real Fren ...

... gave imperialists the ability to maintain their empire, being able to govern a colony thousands of miles away. The web of cables that was so eagerly constructed around the world gave the European empires an advantage that earlier nations never could have imagined. The following pages will cover the history and effects of electrical telecommunications from its beginning through the first world war. They will describe the basic technology and inventors behind the telegraph; following this the implication of this technology, mainly by Britain and France, into everyday practice will be discussed along with its effects. And finally, the effects on polit ...

... to join the fight and promised heavenly and earthly rewards. Debts would be canceled and criminals pardoned. Knights and merchants sought after profit. The army marched across the continent and, despite disagreements, took back the Holy Land. They set up four states and introduced feudalism. English people inhabited the land for 200 years. Eventually, the Turks recaptured several important cities and a second Crusade was called for. This time, two kings led their armies to take back the land. This Crusade and sever others to follow failed. The Turks kept the land. Though England did not regain the land the Turks had taken, the Crusades were not a complet ...

... after his father had accumulated a large debt. Charles was not sent back to school. John Dickens was then arrested and sent to the Marshalsea Prison. Having no where to stay, the Dickens family moved into the Prison with John. Charles did not move into the prison because he had just started a job in a blackening warehouse with his relative James Lambert. After John Dickens was released, the family moved in with Mrs. Roylance, the person whom Charles had been staying with while his family was away. After much quarreling between John and James, the Dickens’ moved out and Charles began to attend school again. He became an independent reporter at Doctor ...

... one can fairly regard Mao Zedong as the principal architect of the new China. Recovery from War 1949-52 In 1949 China's economy was suffering from the debilitating effects of decades of warfare. Many mines and factories had been damaged or destroyed. At the end of the war with Japan in 1945, Soviet troops had dismantled about half the machinery in the major industrial areas of the northeast and shipped it to the Soviet Union. Transportation, communication, and power systems had been destroyed or had deteriorated because of lack of maintenance. Agriculture was disrupted, and food production was some 30 percent below its highest pre-war level. Further, economic ...

... merely a hole in the dike, and more would follow. The National Guard, the Paris Commune, the September Massacre, are all words that the French would prefer us not to hear. These events were a subtle dénouementto an climax that was filled with both blood and pain. The Reign of Terror, or the Great Terror, was a massive culmination to the horror of the French Revolution, the gutters flowing with blood as the people of Paris watched with an entertained eye. No matter what the French may claim, if one chooses to open his eyes and read about this tragedy, they are most certainly welcome. The revolution begins quietly in the fiscal crisis of Louis XVI's reign. The g ...

... property so called is merely the organized power of one class oppressing another (Engels, Marx 95). "Communism deprives no man of the power to appropriate the products of society; all that it does is to deprive him of the power to subjugate the labor of others by means of such appropriation (Engels, Marx 86)." Communists do not form a separate party opposed to other working class parties. There are ten measures needed to convert to communism (Engels, Marx 94). 1. Abolition of property in land and application of all rents of land to the public. 2. Heavy progressive income tax. 3. Abolition of all rights of inheritance. 4. Confiscation ...